Reebee Garofalo is an American musician, activist and music scholar known for his work organizing street festivals such as the HONK! Fest and writing books about popular music.[1] Garofalo created a Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music chart which was reproduced in Edward Tufte's book Visual Explanations.
Reebee Garofalo | |
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 Garofalo in 2012 | |
| Occupation(s) | musician, educator, activist |
| Known for | HONK! |
| Website | reebee |
Garofalo earned an EdD from Harvard University in Clinical Psychology and Public Practice in 1974. He was a founding member of Massachusetts Rock Against Racism in 1979.[2][3] The group, responding to a request from students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School created a multimedia presentation called "Rock and Rap" using music and local DJs to highlight how music could bring people together.[4] The group aligned with other progressive organizations and the black community in the 1980s and worked with the Boston Public Schools create video programming that was "youth-oriented anti-racist programming" which was shown in hundreds of thousands of homes in the greater Boston area.[4]
Garofalo taught at the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston for thirty-three years and is currently professor emeritus.
Bibliography
edit- Rock 'n Roll Is Here to Pay: The History & Politics of the Music Industry (1980, with Steve Chapple) ISBN 9780882293950
- Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music & Mass Movements (1991) ISBN 9780896084278
- Policing Pop (2002, with Martin Cloonan) ISBN 9781566399906
- HONK!: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (2019, with Erin T. Allen and Andrew Snyder) ISBN 9780429672101
- The Prentice Hall Rock and Roll Compilation: Volume 1 (2003) ISBN 9780131897847
- Rockin Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. (1996) ISBN 9780132343053
- The emergence of rap Cubano: an historical perspective (2004, with Deborah Pacini Hernandez) ISBN 9781351217828
References
edit- ^ "Reebee Garofalo". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "University Archives and Special Collections". OPEN ARCHIVES NEWS. 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ "Mass Rock Against Racism". Mass Cult 617. 2019-11-23. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
- ^ a b Foster, Pacey (2017-11-15). "throwback: revisiting rock against racism". Dig Bos. Retrieved 2024-01-07.